Note: This first church was not on the same
location as the second Church and cemetery.
Georgia This Indenture made the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen
hundred and thirty five between Charles L. Kennon of the County & State
aforesaid of the one part and Elisha Hightower James Stanley James G Cotton John
Edwards David Laney & William Marsh & Joseph J Whitaker, Trustees for
the Methodist Episcopal Church of the same County & State of the above
witnesseth that the said Charles L Kennon for & in consideration of the sum
of thirty dollars the receipt wherein is hereby acknowledged hath bargained sold
& conveyed & by these presents doth bargain sell & convey to the
said Elisha Hightower James Ramsey James G Cotton John Edwards David Laney
William Marsh & Joseph J Whitaker Trustees & their succesors in trust
for the Methodist Episcopal Church a certain piece or parcel of land in said
county being part of Lot of Land Number two hundred & sixty eight (268) in
the twentieth district (20) of originally Muscogee but now Harris County &
located & bounded as follows begining at a Post oak on the East end of said
lot on the line between said lot number (267) two hundred & sixty seven on
the road leading & running from Collins Ferry on Chatahoochee River to
Whitesville, thence along said land line North twenty rods (five chains) to a
Sasafras thence West twenty rods to a Red Oak thence South (37) thirty seven
rods to a Hickory on the road thence along the Road said Road being the line to
the begining together with the priviledge of a spring on Lot number 279 two
hundred and seventy nine nearly a North West course from the Church now building
on the above bargained promised & a Pasway to the same with all the
appurtinances of said premises to the benifit use & behalf of the said
Methodist Episcopal Church as aforesaid for the purpose of building a Church
(now building) or place of worship for the members of said Church which said
promises as above located and bounded and the other priviledges herein named the
said Chaarles L Kennon doth hereby warrant & defend to the said Trus- tees
& their successors for the use of said Methodist Episcopal Church for the
purposes of Divine Worship according to the provisions of their own discipline
forever in fee simple In witness whereof the said Charles L Kennon hath hereunto
set his hand & seal the day & year above written in the presence of
Henry Whitaker
Charles L Kennon (LS)
James J Blanton
Georgia Before me a Justice of the Peace for said County personally came Henry
Whitaker who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is a Subcribing
witness to the within deed and that he saw Charles L Kennon sign the same for
the purposes within mentioned & also saw James J Blanton subscribe his name
as a witness.
Sworn to & Subscribed before me Feb 27 1836
J L Bibby J. P.
Henry Whitaker **This photo was (Unfortunately this photograph
has disappeared from the site but thought this note of location was important to
keep) taken by Grey Blanton's mother
in April 1930, and it had the following written on the back: "Church near
the Blanton home between Hamilton & West Point". The church was torn
down sometime in the 40's or 50's, according to Mr. James Cotton, whose
barn next door to the cemetery is built with lumber from the
church. This note was on another page of this website but the photo file
has been misplaced and am adding it here for information only.
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